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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1913
Page
11
Reports describe two Sicilian laborers killed in a Marquette bank car attack with two arrests and expected further arrests amid a vendetta. The Panama Canal sees water admitted after a 32750 pound dynamite blast near Miraflores, while London faces suffragette disturbances and other varied dispatches from across the world.
California readers learn that a auto ferry between Henicia Martinez will begin operations by July 1 after securing funding. The State highway is expected to cross the ferry, and the project gains regional transport momentum.
In Lucerne Valley a busy week features Wednesday to Saturday social events at Box S and East End Sunday school, two teachers elected for upcoming absence of Oxnams, and a schedule for a June 7 Improvement Association meeting with a ball game and picnic. Local reports note pumping plant interest in low-grade distillate fuel, water strikes at Painter's well, and activity around Box S and nearby residents including Vandever Haley Morgan Morris and others.
A brief humorous line from Life magazine shows a boy named Johnny arguing for medicine after meals while his mother insists on bed without any supper. The exchange highlights a domestic back and forth over routines and care.
Washington reports twenty tons of dynamite set off under the Pacific dyke to ease canal workings with thirty days of dredging for emergency traffic. The Panamanian transit plan includes 20 steamers to Los Angeles via Panama. Major political notes cover Flagler’s death, Lorimer’s political comeback bid, and anti trust veto threats. The Navy seeks a government steel armor plant amid graft allegations while Congress recognizes Progressives as a separate party.
The word sphinx derives from Greek meaning strangler and named a fabled creature with a lion body and human head and wings. It symbolized wisdom and power in hieroglyphs, and Egyptian monarchs were often shown as a sphinx. The Nile overflow coinciding with Leo Virgo is likely unfounded.
A dialogue from the Detroit Free Press ponders social barriers. A poor suitor loves a rich heiress but fears parental approval. He predicts the father will demand proof of worth before consent, offering a job to prove he can provide for his daughter.
Autograph episode at Carlsbad shows Brahms scolding Dr Grunberger for pestering him. Weeks later he leaves an envelope inscribed with thanks, prompting the doctor to joke that the envelope itself is the reward and Brahms smiles.
The ancient Babylonians used sucking pigs and goats in exorcism remedies. They killed the animals and placed parts on the patient, with the heart and blood linked to the sick person as a symbolic substitution. The ritual aimed to transfer illness from the patient to the animal.
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